You don’t know product... like I
know product. Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska in the 80’s and 90’s, meant I was a
product of my Environment. Like many of us, I was a product of my family. I was a product of my culture and my
community; which meant:
. Drinking Kool-Aid with more Sugar than the
aid
. Drinking Tang
. Eating frosted flakes with powdered milk that
you’d put in the freezer in a failed attempt at helping it to taste more like
cow’s milk than it ever could
. Hanging out at the pool ALL day and coming
home with your hair in the same state as what it was when you left the house,
i.e. DRY
. Being sent to the grocery
store with a note from my mom giving me permission to buy cigarettes for her
. Using Vaseline for EVERYTHING ashy and dry,
such as:
. Lip-gloss AND
chap stick
. Lipstick if
you mixed a little red kool-aid powder
with it
. Lotion
. Hair
moisturizer
. Baby hair
smoother outer
. Elbow and
knee ash controller
. Nail cuticle
softener
. Johnson & Johnson baby oil – as an
upgraded splurge from vaseline
. Eating every meal with chicken or pork chops,
starch and boiled veggie
. Getting our daily serving of fruit from Dole
canned fruit
. Drinking a minimum of 2 cans of Orange crush,
red and/or purple pop
We’re from the Midwest and we
referred to soda as pop.
Just because you come from a
certain place and grew up doing a certain thing, doesn’t mean you’re NOT
allowed to expand your consciousness to new ideas and concepts. You know! Broaden your horizons.
Most of those things I did as
a kid, I no longer do today. Okay! Okay! Okay! So, I do still use Vaseline, but
it’s like a tradition. I just can’t help myself. There is something to be said
for that big tub of that thick and sticky yellow shine that just makes me feel
at home. However, I have replaced the following for the following:
. Almond milk in place of the powder and vitamin D cow’s milk. So I haven’t given up the ice-cream. I’m a
work in progress…okay!
. Actual natural hair care products for MY type
of hair or weave
. fresh squeezed fruit AND vegetables; as well
as grilled VS the boiled veggies mom
used to make
. And today, I mainly drink water VS kool-aid,
tang and colorful sodas
Who would’ve thought my palette
would actually crave water. When I’m out
with friend or my guy and the waiter asks what will I be drinking, they both
chime in, “she’ll have water. And, I drink my water 30-minutes to an hour after
my meal; so as not to interrupt the digestion process.
So, get our your check list
and make note of how you’ve Grown, Changed and Expanded. Acknowledge yourself
for being open to ALL that you have access to today. After all; were in an
information age where information is Power. And, let Us no longer feel like
victims of our Environment; yet let us reminisce and find the humor and nostalgia
in where we come from and how far we’ve come.
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